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title: He walked out of church feeling as light as a balloon and was sure h… — Confession, prayer and making amends at church · tree and pragmatics
description: He walked out of church feeling as light as a balloon and was sure he would never do anything wrong again. Who acts: Nathan. A sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Confession, prayer and making amends at church, sentence 2

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He walked out of church feeling as light as a balloon and was sure he would never do anything wrong again.

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**Who acts:** Nathan · **What happens:** walk out, feel, be, not do · **To what, where:** church, anything

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Confession, prayer and making amends at church» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nathan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:2
# text = He walked out of church feeling as light as a balloon and was sure he would never do anything wrong again.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:acl
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk out** | past | Nathan | church |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Attribute |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | Nathan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | light *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | Nathan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **do** | would | Nathan | anything |  |  | again |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:365-confession-prayer-and-making-amends-at-church.lesson:2`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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